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The Seasons (poem)

In this edit you inserted a sentence saying that the poem's meter is iambic hexameter "as often used for Latin and Ancient Greek poetry" (even though the meter of classical epics was dactylic hexameter). On the other hand, the poem is given as an example in our article on dactylic hexameter. Iambic or dactylic? I know nothing about Lithuanian poetry, but there seems to be a conflict here. Deor (talk) 15:20, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Controversial moves

Hi, Anthony. Could you please help revert my category moves? Just the category ones (from "Category:Czech electronic music groups" to "Category talk:Russian techno"). These moves I made were deemed controversial and need to be undone. - TheMagnificentist 14:27, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Mass disruptions

Have you ever noticed that by your unthoughtful moves of "pro-democracy camp" and "pro-Beijing camp" you delinked and disrupted hundreds of articles that link to the Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp and pro-Beijing camp? Additionally, your choices for "pro-xxxx camp in Hong Kong" instead of "pro-xxx camp (Hong Kong)" are very questionable, as it is not the common practice for naming an article here on wikipedia. Lmmnhn (talk) 01:53, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

The links were fixed because I did it. Before my edits all the articles linked to "pro-democracy camp" were linked to the disambiguation page. No offence but I do not oppose to the intention of whoever wanted to make it more specific or clearer but to delink hundred of articles by moving a page is just a unthoughtful move. Lmmnhn (talk) 08:58, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Toby fox (artist) listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Toby fox (artist). Since you had some involvement with the Toby fox (artist) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. UnitedStatesian (talk) 14:08, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Common Sense (pamphlet)

I'll try and relay that sentiment to the IP (again). But I don't intend to be middle man indefinitely. Four years and 2 months is quite a while? Martinevans123 (talk) 20:03, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
I didn't plan to do anything there. I just wondered if you could unprotect it as a test, to see if vandalism (or anything else bad) started up again. 208.95.51.38 (talk) 20:56, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

It is a good idea to check the talk page history for earlier moves

Talk:Facade#Requested move before making a WP:RM/TR -- PBS (talk) 13:57, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Talk:Most Girls

Can you please move the deleted history of Talk:Most Girls to Talk:Most Girls (Pink song)? The page should have been moved, not deleted, to make way for a move from Talk:Most Girls (disambiguation). GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 01:28, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Merge request

I've heard you are the merge expert. Wikimedia has received a couple of requests through OTRS (ticket:2017062110025561) regarding Cision and Cision Inc.. I promise to look into seeing if I could move this along. Is this something you can help with?--S Philbrick(Talk) 16:38, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Sony TEN histmerge junk

Can you please revert histmerge junk on Sony TEN? You forgot to do this earlier. GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 04:56, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

A page you started (Operation Bayonet) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Operation Bayonet, Anthony Appleyard!

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Pretty Hurts

I apologize about twice requesting Pretty Hurts to be moved today only to have both moves be reverted. If you're interested, I set up a move request at Talk:Pretty Hurts#Requested move 24 July 2017 that I encourage you to participate in. 2601:8C:4001:DCB9:E559:381A:F74C:F65B (talk) 22:29, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Arcenio León

Why did you agree to restore the old history to the page? The IP is a disruptive user, Alexsautographs, who stopped editing under their own username about a year ago. The article was deleted in 2014 because the subject didn't pass GNG. I created it in 2017, when the subject did pass GNG. The old article history has no bearing on the current article. I don't believe it should have been restored, as the deletion was appropriate. – Muboshgu (talk) 21:15, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

  • @Muboshgu: I have re-deleted the old edits. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:24, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
    • Thanks. FYI I've opened an SPI on this user as I've discovered multiple accounts. – Muboshgu (talk) 21:26, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
  • @Muboshgu: He tried the same with page Michael Brady (baseball). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:37, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
    • He did it at Nick_Additon, although there it appears the "new" article was the same as the old. I'm trying to clean up the messes created by this user, creating lots of articles on nonnotable individuals and trying to claim "credit" whenever a nonnotable individual became notable after the fact. – Muboshgu (talk) 21:39, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

Please undo move of Prince album

Greetings Anthony! Your move of Sign o' the Times to Sign o' the Times (album) popped up on my watchlist and I noticed that it had been requested by an IP user at WP:RM/TR. The IP proceeded to retarget Sign o' the Times to Sign of the Times.[2] I would kindly ask you to revert those moves, because a discussion should be held first, to find out whether the album is primary topic. The situation regarding article titles of this Prince album and its headline song has been stable for many years; it shouldn't be moved without prior debate. Thanks, — JFG talk 14:35, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Initials in name

Hi.
In India, it is a common convention to exclude spaces in initials. ie, it should be H.M. Jyothi rather than H. M. Jyothi. Just wanted to let you know. :)
(PS: It is regarding this.) —usernamekiran(talk) 21:33, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Re: Thanks for help with the history-merging.

Sorry about that, was going to report later; will do sooner next time, thanks for the reminder. Regards, Alex ShihTalk 11:24, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

I also want to say thank you to Anthony for the exact same thing! I appreciate the work that goes into what he does!
Many Thanks,
―Matthew J. Long -Talk-☖ 03:34, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Source question

  • Out of curiosity, where does Search for geological evidence of these events was helped by many exposures and cross-sections of volcanic ash deposits which were caused by men bulk-quarrying them for construction material on 1257 Samalas eruption come from? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:52, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
  • @Jo-Jo Eumerus: I have added a ref. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:02, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Mariana Trench Marine National Monument

I can't get that worked up about this, but I think the recent page move from Marianas Trench Marine National Monument to Mariana Trench Marine National Monument is in error. As the article notes, "The actual text of the proclamation establishing it gives it the official name Marianas Trench Marine National Monument." That proclamation is Presidential Proclamation no. 8335, Establishment of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument (Jan. 6, 2009). The operative statement giving it its official name is on page 2: "NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by section 2 of the Antiquities Act do proclaim that there are hereby set apart and reserved as the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument..." TJRC (talk) 21:20, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

  • @TJRC: I have moved it back. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:23, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
    • Thanks. I'll open a discussion on the talk page, in case it's an issue. TJRC (talk) 21:26, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Double moves

I see that you moved the redirect at Wiking Mineral to Svenska Bergsbruk. This causes the redirect created from an earlier page move to be shown under the target's history instead. You also have a double move of Lou Brock, Jr. to Lou Brock Jr. (originally done by Alex Shih). Also, Alex Shih did a double move originally done by you from Branch Rickey, Jr. to Branch Rickey Jr.. One solution is to undelete the revisions deleted by the double move under the circular redirect, but another solution is to move the circular redirect back and then undelete the accidentally deleted revisions. Below are the log entries for the 2 solutions, as well as the edit for solution 1.

Solution 1
  • User (talk | contribs) moved page A to B (reason)
  • Admin (talk | contribs) deleted page B (G6: Deleted to make way for move)
  • Admin (talk | contribs) moved page A to B (reason)
  • Admin (talk | contribs) restored page B (# revisions) (oops)
  • Admin reverts to text on page B with an edit summary such as "rv to text"
Solution 2
  • User (talk | contribs) moved page A to B (reason)
  • Admin (talk | contribs) deleted page B (G6: Deleted to make way for move)
  • Admin (talk | contribs) moved page A to B (reason)
  • Admin (talk | contribs) deleted redirect A by overwriting (G6: Deleted to make way for move)
  • Admin (talk | contribs) moved page B to A over a redirect without leaving a redirect (oops)
  • Admin (talk | contribs) restored page B (# revisions) (oops)

A move of the redirect at A to the same target B it points to as the result of an earlier move could also have followed "moved page B to C without leaving a redirect" (as you have done with Template:Pull quote/boilerplate redirecting to Template:Cquote/boilerplate originally by Herostratus, for example) instead of "deleted page B", but this is unlikely. GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 18:25, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

  • @GeoffreyT2000: In both cases, examining the talk page will show two moves from A to B by different admins in consecutive minutes. In both cases, it may be most useful to put a history note in its talk page saying that unintentionally two admins obeyed the same move request at the same time; and a move instruction takes time to be obeyed as signals travel across the world and servers work through queues. Coincidences happen sometimes. Sorry. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 20:32, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
  • @Alex Shih: as above Anthony Appleyard (talk) 20:36, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Svenska Bergsbruk

Please revert history merge junk on Svenska Bergsbruk], which you forgot to do earlier. GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 22:38, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

I took the liberty and reverted, thanks. Alex ShihTalk 02:50, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

History merge request

Would you be able to merge the history of Draft:Ben Seresin in Ben Seresin? Thank you. Rusted AutoParts 02:16, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Planning Areas of Singapore

Template:Planning Areas of Singapore has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes (talk) 14:13, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Kavi Anil Patil withdrawn

Please mark the request for Kavi Anil Patil at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge#Queried requests as "not done". I withdrew the request by removing the <nowiki>'ed template from the article. GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 22:40, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

The Pile

Can you please undelete the remaining revisions for The Pile and Talk:The Pile? You forgot to do so while splitting out edits to The Pile (NYC World Trade Center). GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 04:52, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Immigration to SwedenImmigration listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Immigration to SwedenImmigration. Since you had some involvement with the Immigration to SwedenImmigration redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. UnitedStatesian (talk) 17:54, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Move review for Damn (Kendrick Lamar album)

An editor has asked for a Move review of Damn (Kendrick Lamar album). Because you were involved in the move discussion for this page, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the move review. — TheMagnificentist 12:14, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Senate House Education listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Senate House Education. Since you had some involvement with the Senate House Education redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. ~ Rob13Talk 02:27, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

List of taxa described from Nevada

  • Could you undelete this? I had just added some more information and references in response to the (unjustified) speedy delete tagging. Abyssal (talk) 05:33, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
  • @Abyssal:  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:32, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
    • Thanks for the speedy response. It seems, that it was tagged and deleted again by someone else, though. Abyssal (talk) 16:43, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Histmerge and drafts

Hello Anthony. I'm asking about what should be done in the case of an article that was created in mainspace when there exists a Draft article that has "precedence" – the specific case I am considering here is Pyewacket (film), and Draft:Pyewacket (film), the latter of which was created long before the new article, and which in my opinion should be merged/histmerged into the mainspace article. Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer on this. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 15:02, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

And a new one for you...

Anthony, I have a new, but related one, for you. I asked for a WP:REFUND on the original but subsequently deleted article Chloe East – it now resides at User:IJBall/sandbox7. From the looks of it, the original but subsequently deleted article is in every way superior to what now exists at Draft:Chloe East. So, I'm suggesting that User:IJBall/sandbox7 be HISTMERGE'd into Draft:Chloe East. This one's a little more difficult than the last one, though, as there is more of a revision history at Draft:Chloe East. So, I'd appreciate it if you'd perform some "histmerge magic" here, or offer some advice on how to proceed... Thanks in advance! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 14:04, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

  • @IJBall: The edits at Draft:Chloe East are mostly from 04:08 4 August 2017 to 14:07 4 August 2017, with an intruding bot edit at 18:55 4 August 2017, and a deletion-tagging at 08:34 17 January 2017 edit-noted "all done with this now: content merged to Draft:Devyn Nekoda". These edits are all in time between these 2 consecutive edits of User:IJBall/sandbox7; but these 2 pages are clearly not part of the same edit sequence. As regards which article of User:IJBall/sandbox7 and Draft:Chloe East is "better" :: sorry; I live in England, and I know little about the USA acting scene; it may be better to text-merge these two pages. (Note also that User:IJBall/sandbox7 is sitting over a deleted edit history dated from 01:37 14 May 2016 to 23:05 25 May 2016 which is a list of animation studios.) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:58, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
    • Ah, good point – I've used that Sandbox before for other things... OK, I'll probably try text-merging them then, but I'll be sure to include an attribution to the original Chloe East (now deleted) article in the edit summary, though effectively it will mostly be a "replacement" of the current text at Draft:Chloe East with the original text. That will probably have to suffice... Thanks! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 15:04, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

A Generous Thank You for Your Assistance

Hi and Good Evening Anthony!


I am writing this message to say that, I thank you so very much for assisting me with attempting to update the Mohegan Lake, New York Article! However, I have a question to ask you (if you don't mind me asking). Since the change for the Title of the Article has been completed (and that I've attempted to do a web search for the City name through my Internet Browser to test). How come when I search on Google the Title of the Article still shows up as "Lake Mohegan" and the same with the Article's URL? Is this something separate that I would have to ask Google legally that I would want to change the Title from Lake Mohegan, New York to Mohegan Lake, New York? Below I will insert the links to both of these, so that you would better understand for what I am explaining.

https://www.google.com/search?site=&source=hp&q=Mohegan+Lake%2C+New+York&oq=Mohegan+Lake%2C+New+York&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l2j38j0i22i30k1.3374.8776.0.9151.24.23.0.0.0.0.152.1999.5j13.18.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..6.18.1995.1..35i39k1j0i131k1.2N40OL-wlAY#duf3=0,duf3-2-14

NOTE // The Title that shows up as "Lake Mohegan" is in the first column box on the right side of the Webpage, just beneath the pictures that depict of a Barnes & Noble Store and Mohegan Lake's Geographic Picture from the Map (Google Maps). The URL that shows up as Lake_Mohegan,_New_York is in green and that it is associated with Wikipedia (the Wikipedia URL).

You can respond back to this (if you would like) for when you have the opportunity.

Have a lovely rest of the Evening, Love.

Sarah Sarah.t.life 03:17, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

  • @Anthony Appleyard: Ohh! Alright then. So, this is something separate that I wouldn't have to do a manual legal change with Google? Google would need some time to look into it and make the change permanent? However, to get to the point, I wouldn't have to do anything, just wait until Google notices that it's no longer Lake Mohegan but, Mohegan Lake?
  • @Sarah.t.life: Internet searchers run programs called spiders or web crawlers that continually search around the world's websites. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:35, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
  • @Anthony Appleyard: Why yes, I have researched and understood for what both those terms meant. However though, for my concern. Would I just have to wait (not do anything) until the Web Crawlers come upon it?

You can respond back to this for when you get the chance.

Warm regards,

Sarah Sarah.t.life 17:27, 13 August 2017 (UTC) talk

  • @Sarah.t.life: I have had the same problem. A user thankfully let me use be some website space, but Google is taking an age and an age finding that that new named web area and its contents exists. Also, old data hangs about in internet transfer nodes' buffers. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:19, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
  • @Anthony Appleyard: Ohh! alright then. I understand what you would mean by the old Data and Internet Transfer Nodes' Buffers. So I guess I might as well just have to wait until the change takes it's course.

Sarah Sarah.t.life 22:29, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

2 queried pages

Thank you! Robert G. (talk) 09:59, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Off-Broadway

I see that you moved this article name, but it refers to a genre as well as a destination for musicals and plays. The move was disputed on the Talk page, so I don't think it should have been moved, especially without notifying editors on the Talk page that such a move was requested. -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:48, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. Happy editing! -- Ssilvers (talk) 05:34, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
The move discussion at Talk:Off-Broadway was withdrawn by the requester. Would you kindly take a look and close it if you agree that is appropriate? All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 23:04, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
  • @Ssilvers: That query seems to raise either or both of two Wikipedia-rule-application queries:
    1. "Is it valid for User:oknazevad to withdraw his own move request?": It looks possible, but I better leave that for higher authorities within Wikipedia to decide on finally.
    2. "Is the page move correct, deciding from the nature of USA theaters?": Sorry; I am in England and I have never been to America, and I know little about USA theater; I very rarely have been to live-acting theaters. The British newspapers cover largely London theatre.
    Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:51, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Please explain deletions

Speed Demons (1997 video game) and Snowmobile Championship 2000 were both deleted by you. Why? The deletion log does not explicitly reference the process under which they were deleted. --Izno (talk) 18:35, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Incorrect redirection

Please undo your redirection of Sammy Wilk. Also, please redirect Nathan Maloley to Skate (rapper). I have asked for the latter, not the former, to be redirected. GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 14:49, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of KiSSFLOW page

Hi Anthony, you did a delete of the page for KiSSFLOW recently, mentioning the caps/no caps as a tactic. That's actually how the software is spelled on its website. https://kissflow.com/. Can you help me see why it went for a speedy deletion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Neilinmadras (talk • contribs) 12:42, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Mathan/etc spelling query

hi, i know that two person directly Madhan and madan writer , madan writer used to write his name as mathan or madan thats only the issue(edit war as you said) but madhan evreryone knows in our home town that refers actor very notable peron in our country ...but the sad isssue is we dont have the orginal source of madanwriter ...help needed ..thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chennaiboys (talk • contribs) 05:27, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

  • @Chennaiboys:: (1) Please sign your messages, using ~~~~ . (2) Unfortunately, I know nothing about these people named Madhan. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:33, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

Madhan

)hi, i am actor madhan ...I need a help ,i dont know what happen to that wiki page, Now in google search my wiki page is not shown, In search for madhan ,result = "disambiguation list", "madhan (writer)","madhan karky"..if i search for madhan actor,result= "madhan bob" and "disambiguation list" my page not shown..... can you help me for that pls... --wiki (talk) 21:34, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

All pages with titles containing madhan

do you get me what help i ask for--wiki (talk) 10:18, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

the page about me is not available in google search now need help for that--wiki (talk) 10:21, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

AN

Hi, As I've accidentally pinged you I've asked at AN for the article to be moved back - The onus shouldn't be on me to get consensus as I wasn't the one who moved it in the first place, Anyway thanks. –Davey2010Talk 17:17, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Marzban -> Marzbān

Hello Anthony Appleyard; This should not have happened imo. Was this even discussed? There is nothing on the talk page of the article. We don't tend to spell names in that way. --HistoryofIran (talk) 19:40, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

We still don't usually use macrons though, the article was moved without any form for discussion - that's not really fair, now is it? --HistoryofIran (talk) 21:59, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
On the contrary, the macron is widely used in Iranian articles. Many similar articles use the macron. See {{Military of the Sasanian Empire sidebar}} for example. Even the ones that don't have the macron in the title do use it in the template and in the lede (see Navbed, for example). I'm just trying to bring a bit of consistency .Colonies Chris (talk) 22:26, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Just Like Fire → Just like Fire

Hi Anthony, is there any way you can move the page Just Like Fire to Just like Fire? The lowercase "like" is the proper title, as per this website.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.grammarcheck.net/capitalization-in-titles-101/|title=Capitalization in Titles 101|work=GrammarCheck.net - Check your text online|access-date=2017-08-28|language=en-US}}</ref> Thanks. CB19 (talk) 14:44, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:IASAGlobal

Hi Anthony, I recently had this page recovered and was working on the draft only to have it deleted again because of (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion) Is there any way to recover the text so I can improve it ?

This page has been deleted. The deletion, protection, and move log for the page are provided below for reference. 14:29, 28 August 2017 User:Anthony Appleyard (talk | contribs) deleted page Draft:IASAGlobal (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion) 21:52, 21 August 2017 Graeme Bartlett (talk | contribs) restored page Draft:IASAGlobal (5 revisions) (requested by David Slight) 10:26, 21 August 2017 RHaworth (talk | contribs) deleted page Draft:IASAGlobal (G13: Abandoned AfC submission – If you wish to retrieve it, please see WP:REFUND/G13) David Slight (talk) 15:57, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

14:24, 28 August 2017 Anthony Appleyard (talk | contribs) deleted page Draft:Bitquence (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion)

Hi Anthony,

I am new to Wikipedia and I didn't understand how the draft process works and published to early. My first article you deleted for Unabiguous advertising or promotion. I tried to write if from my own point of view and be " objective and unbiased style, free of puffery". Not sure which part is violating this but I do know it was not ready to go live and I would like to make changes to the original.

Do you have any tips on what specifically I could do to make it acceptable? I was basically copying following the style of very similar pages on similar interests as my guide.

How do I view the draft now it has been deleted?

--Jesse003 (talk) 20:54, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

  • @Jesse003: See WP:SPAM. One advertisory feature about the article is the many uses of the pronoun "you". To keep your article away from people who may want to delete it, it may be better to keep a copy of it on your computer at home. I have undeleted page Draft:Bitquence. For format and style compare the other members of Category:Alternative currencies and its subcategories. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:56, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Cajun Navy

The article Cajun Navy has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

The title Cajun Navy is unlikely to have a long lifetime outside of newspaper headlines, and will therefore not be a good encyclopedia entry.
An alternate strategy would be a redirect or disambiguation page to point to Katrina or Harvey. Move the content there.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Rhadow (talk) 13:44, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

FYI - I've declined the prod as such, given that some of the references go back a decade or more. Besides, as a redirect where would it go? Good cases could be made for Rita, Katrina, and Harvey - as well as other uses and incidents. UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 13:54, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
OK, Said -- Fine. Rhadow (talk) 13:56, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of DanTDM // TheDiamondMinecart

A tag has been placed on DanTDM // TheDiamondMinecart requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Implausible redirect with poor formatting created against an active consensus

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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 17:28, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Other

It was undoubtedly correct to turn Other from a soft link to Wiktionary into a DAB page. However, you may have overlooked WP:FIXDABLINKS. User:DPL bot reports that the move broke 332 links. Yrs, Narky Blert (talk) 10:21, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

  • @Narky Blert: I have reverted the move. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:49, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
  • @Narky Blert: Many of these links to "other" seem to be to a recently developed habit of using the word "other" as a verb ("to make into an other", "to treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise", "to label as "other"". Anthony Appleyard (talk) 11:27, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
I wouldn't mind betting that a good proportion of the links shouldn't exist at all. (My favourite, which I've seen a couple of times, is linked in this sentence.) I'll put some work into sorting other out, adding {{dn}} where necessary. I hate soft redirects out of Wiki, and this one makes the DAB page very difficult to find. Yrs, Narky Blert (talk) 12:33, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
More than a few seem to relate to Other (philosophy). Yrs, Narky Blert (talk) 12:42, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation talk page

Can you please move the deleted history of Talk:Other to Talk:Other (disambiguation)? The talk page should have been moved along with the disambiguation page, but instead was simply deleted to make way for a move from Talk:Other/version 2. GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 22:32, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

Speedy question

Regarding User:Glinfy/sandbox, I'm curious what the "db-histmerge request" summary is about, when the tag here was actually G6 housecleaning sock's contributions (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Knikhil21). Cheers, SwisterTwister talk 03:49, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

  • @Knikhil21: The db-histmerge request is actually a request to history-merge another page into that page. But the request did not say which to history-merge in. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 03:53, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
Would you reconsider if the template was Template:Db-maintenance or Template:Db-house as they use the same G6 standard. Cheers, SwisterTwister talk 04:09, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
  • @Knikhil21 and SwisterTwister: The format to use seems to be e.g. {{db-g6|rationale=Made up by user or}} or {{db-g6|Made up by user or}} , stating the reason for wanting the page to be deleted. The | character after "g6" is the "stick"; on my British keyboard it is at the near left corner, as shift for the \ . Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:55, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Redirect reversal request

Discussions on Catholicism and Catholicity

Hi, if you have time, would you please take a look at current discussions on the page Talk:Catholicism (term)? I am asking you because I saw that some time ago you participated in redirecting of Catholicism (disambiguation) to Catholic (disambiguation), and it seems that reestablishing that disambiguation page might solve some problems that are currently discussed. Sorabino (talk) 10:05, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Question

Hi. In this discussion, you pinged Jakeroberts, an account with no edits. Judging by the edit history of the corresponding page, did you mean Jakeroberts27? I'm collecting evidence for G-Zay's sockpuppetry (who is a dishonest individual that has been manipulating discussions on Talk:American English and much more than that) and I'd just like to confirm whether that was the case or whether Jakeroberts could also be involved. Mr KEBAB (talk) 13:50, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

  • @Mr KEBAB: I meant Jakeroberts27. Sorry, it was a typo. I looked down the page for usernames of people that may have been relevant. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:07, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
    • I was 98% sure of that but now I know that for certain. Thanks. Mr KEBAB (talk) 15:13, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Jemiah Jefferson

Can you restore all of the deleted revisions of the Jemiah Jefferson page to complete the page's history.73.1.57.180 (talk) 23:57, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

09:47, 2 September 2017 Anthony Appleyard (talk | contribs) deleted page OpenLiteSpeed (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion)

Hi Anthony,

You deleted my article OpenLiteSpeed because it was marked as "Unabiguous advertising or promotion". I believe it was written factually. I was hoping you could give me some tips on how to make it better so I can re-create a similar one without any bias. Thanks in advance for your help!

Kaceyyyy (talk) 19:29, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Iambic trimeter

The paragraph on substitution is still confused, even after your amendment. Earlier in the article substitution is defined as follows: "Substitutions were common, especially in the first two metra of the line, so that any long or anceps syllable except the last could be replaced by two short syllables". Now you are defining substitution differently, as "substitution (here, replacing the first syllable of a foot by two shorts)" (where is "here"?). The distinction between resolution and substitution (if there is one) needs to be made clearer in both places in the article. Perhaps you could say "Substitution of two shorts for a long syllable in the anceps position of a metron is rare in tragedy and mainly used for accommodating a proper name, but in the second and fourth elements of the metron it is more common." (A reference to a standard textbook such as Maas or Raven or West for a technical statement such as this is desirable, however.) Kanjuzi (talk) 10:24, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Possible historymerge or other solution to give correct attribution.

  • I'd be grateful of advice here. There is an article Yi Ding (psychologist) that was started in March this year. At the same time there was an abandoned but not yet deleted draft Draft:Yi Ding. The mainspace article seems to be fairly heavily based on the draft, see User talk:Masterknighted#Yi Ding (psychologist) and also Earwig's copyright comparison says 80% match. If it was copied or relied heavily on then it doesn't credit the people who edited the draft and the originator of the draft is quite upset that there work appears to have been plagiarised or copytheft has occurred (a subsidiary issue is that the draft was decline twice at AFC and then there is a mainspace article with no issues but basically the same content). I'm wondering does it need a historymerge to provide some attribution or as the draft has now been deleted whether some minor/dummy edit and attribute via the edit summary will suffice? Nthep (talk) 20:00, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
  • @Nthep: I have history-merged Draft:Yi Ding to Yi Ding (psychologist): see this diff. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:33, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for that. Now to explain it all. Nthep (talk) 08:18, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Red hat move

Hi Anthony, I understand why you were reluctant to merge the histories but I was not quite clear what you were asking from each editor here Talk:Operation Red Hat/Archive 1#Query about restoration of deleted edits? I would like to show the Edit history of the page at least from creation and possibly to to deletion as well as any changes since AfD. This diff from DRV shows each version with the majority of text and references that were deleted from both pages. Some citations in those edits were repaired but they look broken in that diff. Is the list of deleted references what you were asking for? If so I'll post a reply there. If not, could you explain a bit more what you require from me? Thanks Johnvr4 (talk) 13:04, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Failed ping

FYI, this edit did not ping me. — JJMC89 (T·C) 22:19, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Deleted edit

If you have the time, could you take a look at this and advise?

I created a redirect at Publius Silius which was deleted by an admin without a PROD or RFD and without meeting any CSD. I thought this was wrong and so I raised it on his/her talk page here. When that discussion went cold, I made a request for undeletion here (still open, I guess). That prompted the deleting admin to create a new article on the figure he thought should be covered at that title (the current article). I still think the deleted revision should be restored to the article history since it was not a justifiable deletion. Am I being crazy? In any case, I am not asking that the present article be deleted or changed into a redirect. The question of title and primacy can be settled later, if anybody cares enough. Srnec (talk) 03:12, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. Srnec (talk) 14:10, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Reduce page protection for South Park (season 21)

Hi Anthony. It's clear there's a consensus to create a season 21 article for South Park. I see you've now restored South Park (season 21). Could you reduce the page protection so it can be updated? That would affect my vote in the move discussion. Thanks. -- Wikipedical (talk) 16:10, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. EdJohnston (talk) 04:46, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Parallel histories

So are you saying that Sprout (block) and Universal Kids must remain separate articles because of how this "split" (which shouldn't have happened per implied consensus) occurred? See also Talk:Universal Kids. ViperSnake151  Talk  16:37, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

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Help

Hi, can you move Talk:Mạc Thái Tổ back to its original page? thanks. Artix Kreiger (talk) 15:33, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

  • @Artix Kreiger: What is "its original page"? Its page log shows no sign of it having been moved. And its article page Mạc Thái Tổ is an article, not a redirect, and its page log shows no sign of it having been moved. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:47, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Mạc Đăng Dung. Thats the original page. The person moved to a talk page, redirected the "main page" and then copied the contents there. Artix Kreiger (talk) 15:56, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Category:Rayguns has been nominated for discussion

Category:Rayguns, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 19:08, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Page redirecting to itself

The page Jeffery (mixtape) should not redirect to itself. Can you please restore the article text for that page? GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 13:53, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Draft:Biography

Hello there. The above linked page has persisted for 6 months since the last edit. As you're the administrator of record for enacting the full protection I ask that the page be Speedy deleted under CSD:G13 and if approprate the page title be creation protected. Hasteur (talk) 16:24, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of page - italki

Hi Anthony, I was curious curious about the deletion of the italki page. The site is not small, and is growing. Many smaller sites are covered in Wikipedia. It's just very surprising that this would be deleted.

Kshanghai (talk) 02:50, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

  • @Anthony Appleyard: Thanks for the deletion reference. I have read it. I do think the service is noteworthy enough to be mentioned in Wikipedia. I think that the previous page content did not meet Wikipedia's standards for neutrality and for citations. I've asked for the page to be restored to my user space, and I hope that a revised version will be better, and will meet Wikipedia's standards. I'll let you know afterwards. Thanks again.

Kshanghai (talk) 04:15, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Flying glass for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Flying glass is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flying glass until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Blood red

Thanks for your help with this, Anthony. Not quite the outcome I was looking for— maybe there is just no way to do what I was asking without modifying each article that linked to the previous "Blood Red" film article, which I will admit would have been a pain in the rear. I still believe that the article on the color has primacy and should be the landing place for someone typing "blood red" into the Wikipedia search box (rather than a disambig page), but what can't be done can't be done, eh? KDS4444 (talk) 07:44, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Deleted parallel history of Liza Koshy

Liza Koshy (actress) has already been moved to Liza Koshy and the AfD closed, but can you please move the deleted parallel history of the article and its talk page to some other title (e.g. "Liza Koshy (version 2)")? Merging is not possible. GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 22:27, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

User sandbox deletion

It appears this page deletion was done in reverse. User:X/sandbox is the correct URL render; I incorrectly created "/Sandbox" where "/sandbox" already existed. "/sandbox" should be restored and "/Sandbox" deleted. Thanks. ATS (talk) 06:07, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Yes, thank you. ATS (talk) 17:34, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you for your help.

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Collegial uncertainty?

Hello Anthony Appleyard. I do not understand why you summarily dismissed my contention of this technical request, without action. Any help you can give to that end, (my understanding), will be appreciated. Thank you.--John Cline (talk) 07:54, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Left out the redirect (again)

Why did you leave out the first revision (a redirect by me) in this article? This isn't the first time too as you did the same for K-391 before it was deleted and several other articles. Do you think redirects have no value or are unworthy to be attributed? — Zawl 13:51, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

redirects

How do I move items without leaving redirects? Artix (Message wall) 02:38, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Just saying, I had looked around and saw it was WP:PMR but i don't have 3k edits yet. Artix (Message wall) 13:36, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Draft:Ecampusontario

The history of Draft:ECampusOntario was merged into Draft:Ecampusontario by Rehman. So can you please mark it as such at WP:RFHM, and move the request from the "Rejected requests" to the "Completed requests" section for September 2017? GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 14:44, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Todis

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Incorrect histmerge

You have done the history merge for Template:Timeline of WhatsApp wrongly. Please move the history of that page except the following 6 revisions to Timeline of WhatsApp, and then merge the following exceptions to Template:WhatsApp timeline.

  1. 803986217
  2. 803992815
  3. 803993104
  4. 803993439
  5. 803994592
  6. 804303373

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Lockhart high school

I requested a move of Lockhart high school to Lockhart High School at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests. You removed the request without moving the article, giving the explanation "discuss 1, done 2 (1 needed histmerge), 1 was already done". I can't figure out from your edit summary why you declined the request. Can you please clarify? Deli nk (talk) 15:17, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

Just accidental, then? I thought maybe I was missing something important. Thanks. Deli nk (talk) 11:57, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Double move request

FYI, for dweeb, I already contested the move request. RileyBugz会話投稿記録 15:38, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Aviron Pictures for deletion

Am I breaking some kind of rule by removing the notification of the AfD from your talk page? It just seemed wrong -- I think you show up as the originator of the page only because of a redirect or a move. JSFarman (talk) 02:08, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Clearing house (finance)

Hi Anthony, thank you for your help moving this page. I think the move I proposed has lost the history for two articles, Cheque clearing and Clearing house (finance) because the the original Cheque clearing article was copied and pasted into Clearing house (finance), which was deleted and recreated as a result of the move I proposed. Before going any further, I wanted to discuss what the best way to proceed is. I wonder if it is better to undo the move (if possible) and then copy the text from Clearing house (finance) back to Cheque clearing. There is then some text on central counterparty clearing that needs moving back to Clearing house (finance). Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Fixing cut-and-paste moves Whizz40 (talk) 18:09, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

  • @Whizz40: This seems to be the usual edit history problem caused by text-merging two pages, or by splitting a daughter page off a page. See WP:Parallel histories. Best put history note sections in their talk pages. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 20:53, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

Mount Tambora

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On this day, 13 years ago...

Happy First Edit Day, Anthony Appleyard, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Slightlymad 04:29, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Help wanted with a draft

Move after Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hunter's Home

Hi Anthony! After the above, please move the Hunter's Home, now repurposed as a biog, to Henry Voordecker, which I can't (talk page etc). Many thanks, Johnbod (talk) 13:32, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

COPYVIO - History merge - Daylight saving time by country, Daylight saving time by region and country

Both pages had a copy-paste move in 2012. Could you merge the histories under the new title Daylight saving time by country? Also applies to talk pages. 77.179.165.88 (talk) 15:11, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Note: Talk page has no overlap. 77.179.165.88 (talk) 15:34, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Page Recreation

User:Anthony Appleyard, I just recently recreated a page with the name Corey Mills; this is with updated information. MisterSir (talk) 19:31, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

List of spells in Harry Potter

Hi. Could you create List of spells in Harry Potter as a redirect to List of Harry Potter-related topics#this article section? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 21:24, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Light of the Stable (disambiguation)

Shouldn't Light of the Stable (disambiguation) be deleted, since it is a dab page that contains only one functioning entry? —BarrelProof (talk) 21:53, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

Baltimore Blast Histmerge

Can you explain why you declined the histmerge? It appeared to me to be a straightforward case of a copy-paste move, with the Draft page coming first. Was there something else I missed? Hamtechperson 22:49, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

Art patronage of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

Hi Anthony! This has been merged back (not by me) to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, after a talk page discussion at the biog. There is a little on the talk-page, covered the earlier history. Could you check this is now handled ok? Many thanks, Johnbod (talk) 15:34, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

  • @Johnbod: This query is about text-merging two articles into one, not about history-merging. Unfortunately, I know nothing about George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, or about his connections with art. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 20:48, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
I wasn't suggesting you did, or asking for help with the text. Do the histories need merging - for the talk page for example? Johnbod (talk) 20:55, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
@Anthony Appleyard: Johnbod (talk) 19:42, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Language links

Hello. I wanted to ask you if the missing links to other Wikis is normal for a certain period of time. In the recently moved article Turkish Football Championship the links are still missing. Regards, Akocsg (talk) 17:07, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Page Arse (district)

Hi please move Arse (district) to the right place FFS — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.36.145.224 (talk) 22:11, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Chris Columbus, Jr.

Hi, Anthony. Just want to say that User:Roman Spinner is correct — the article's correct title is Chris Columbus, Jr., with a comma as shown at a screenshot of the title card at the Big Cartoon Database. There's a talk-page post about it.--Tenebrae (talk) 00:38, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Westfield Hurstville

Poor thing's moved around so much, it deserves frequent flier miles. -- Dlohcierekim (talk) 12:40, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Request to revert undiscussed move

Hello, Anthony. Louie (TV series) was moved today by an editor without opening a move discussion, when the last discussion about the same move closed with no consensus. I placed that in the "Requests to revert undiscussed moves" section of WP:RM, but it has been removed by another editor (who apparently supports the move). I'm wondering if you could take a look. I believe my request to revert is appropriate. Thanks. -- Wikipedical (talk) 19:24, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Bluehole Inc.

Hello! Earlier today, you deleted the redirect "Bluehole Inc." as part of a histmerge to the eponymous draft. Would you mind also deleting the related redirects Bluehole Studio Bluehole, Inc. and Bluehole (company)? Cheers! Lordtobi (✉) 12:00, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Tobias Conradi moves

Hi, I see that you've been moving per a lot of requests from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Tobias_Conradi who is locally and globally banned entirely because of this kind of stuff. He's now operating out of IP ranges in Germany and focuses almost entirely on capitalization and his invented consistency of names, often changing something and then asking for everything else to be made consistent tot that. There's nothing to be gained from discussion from this chap and IPs should be blocked for a few hours, while accounts should be reported to meta for global locking. Many of his technical move requests have been rejected by other editors, see User talk:Tony1#Your false claim "usually not done" related to Abkhazia for one example. Links to the various ban discussions are on the SPI page and links to the numerous (prior) AN / ANI discussions are within those. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 01:36, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

  • (edit conflict)I don't think that's necessary, this chap just usually has us spinning around about him, he's been at this since 2003 apparently, and was banned locally before I even started editing here. Not all his requests are wrong, it's just that someone would have to sift through to identify the good ones -- which is what they seem to prefer at CfD because he goes around and changes category descriptions and those are easily missed unless he lists iat CfD/speedy too, and apparently a few admins check that out there and weed out the crap, but we're still cleaning up some of his category mess from 2015. Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive294#Tobias Conradi was my latest warning post at AN. This has all the discussions at the various AN boards. The SPI has more specific links. At this point, I would just ignore the IP requests from O2 Germany (geographic locations related) and block those IPs for a few hours as he'll switch pretty soon. A rangeblock isn't feasible without collateral damage, unfortunately. Sadly, this is nothing more than a time sink, especially since he phrases his requests to sound very policy based. —SpacemanSpiff 06:05, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
If you click on the IP (signature), you should get this and from that, at the bottom you can click on "Geolocate" which gives you "ISP: O2 Deutschland" or "Whois" which gives you "Telefonica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG", I use a combination of both to check on it. A more cumbersome way is to go to www.whois.com and copy the IP in to the search box and click on whois, and that would give "descr: Telefonica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG". O2 is the older name for Telefonica, so I expect that the change in name will reflect soon enough on all these methods. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 06:17, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

Going to be funny how admins make themselves less productive while hunting a concept. Not only do they have to judge requests on their own merits but now they have to analyse, block [complete nonsense, since this makes the IP switch, which in turn makes related edits harder to find. ;-)]. Once there was one user. Then there were several. Now IPs. Now you try to hunt IPs. LOL. And the user did never do anything like vandalism, 3RR. He just applied WP policies. That's what makes his edits so hard to revert long-term. You can revert, ignore requests etc. But that only produces even more work, since other users/IPs will make the same requests later. Good luck with hunting Telefonica. There are dozens of internet access providers in Europe! LOL. 92.227.85.50 (talk) 07:59, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Origin of "Howdy"

Hi Anthony Appleyard. Would you mind closing Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Origin of "Howdy" since you've speedily deleted the draft? Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 12:09, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you Anthony Appleyard for the update and also thanks to KGirlTrucker81 for closing the MfD. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:32, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Merge request

Hi, I see you do lots of history merges. I was wondering if you can perform history merges for two pairs articles undergome merge/split, see Talk:Vaccine#Help!:

Staszek Lem (talk) 22:32, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

About The Sun and Her Flowers, User:The Sun and Her Flowers, Draft:The Sun and Her Flowers, and The sun and her flowers, and so on

Hi Anthony,
It appears there are now two pretty much identical en:wp pages about this 2017 book of poetry by Canadian writer Rupi Kaur:

Looking at the history of the various pages, there's a lot of page-movery and cut-and paste-erey that I quite frankly don't really understand enough to fix it.
AA, like it or not, you're en.wp's WP:CUTPASTE Czar.
Could you possibly have a little look at this?
Pete "this guy is a WP:Admin? Shome mishtake, shurely?" aka --Shirt58 (talk) 11:27, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

If you say it's fixed, then I'm sure it's fixed. Thank you again! Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 09:35, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

Harald Krüger

Hi, Whats the difference between this article and the deleted edits? Artix Kreiger (talk) 23:54, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Any helpful script

I'd like to ask if there'sany script that helps perform round robin moves easily ʍaɦʋɛօtʍ (talk) 00:17, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion of Fortis Bangalore

I want to request you to undelete FOrtis Bangalore because I intend to work on it and make it wikipedia worthy. Please undelete it. Annakoppad (talk) 09:59, 22 November 2017 (UTC)Annakoppad

Response needed

I pinged you at User talk:Young Tom Fowdy Watchers. You deleted Draft:Tom Fowdy as an attack page. Maybe I'm missing something, but I am not seeing in the deleted history any evidence of being an attack page. The anonymous IP who tagged it with G10 sent me email saying he is the subject and regards it as personal, although we don't keep or delete articles based on the personal preferences of the subject. I've looked at some of the sources and it seems the draft article is well put together (so far as I've looked). Would you please explain? Is there some off-wiki hounding I'm not aware of? ~Anachronist (talk) 18:05, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

I am not a famous person and I do not meet wikipedia’s notability guideline TF92 (talk) 19:39, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
So you have said on my talk page. The sources in that draft article need to be examined more closely before any determination about your notability is made. The only thing that makes the draft suspicious is the username of the creator, not the content. ~Anachronist (talk) 19:50, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
I am not notable and I dont need you to judge that for me. I know I’m not notable as I have no claim to notability. A few blog posts do not count TF92 (talk) 19:55, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
After reviewing every source in that draft, I agree you aren't notable. The sources cited consist entirely of trivial mentions or things written by you; nothing that establishes notability. The author seems to be an admirer of yours. Any idea why? ~Anachronist (talk) 20:03, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
  • In this discussion, from "I am not a famous" on, "you" is User:TF92 . Anthony Appleyard (talk) 07:30, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Club template talk page

Would you mind also merging the history of Template talk:Template:AFC Champions League performances by club to Template talk:AFC Champions League performances by club? GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 22:26, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

AFCH Reply

Can you add the articles for creation helper, or if you don't, at least clean up AfC templates after you move drafts into mainspace? Thanks. -- I dream of horses  If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message  (talk to me) (My edits) @ 00:16, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

  • @I dream of horses: By "clean up AfC templates" (see [3]), do you mean "remove them"? If so, when (as I sometimes am asked to) I history-merge page Draft:X into page X, any templates in the draft thus become old edits and thus are no longer active; and any draft-type templates in the latest edit of page X got there by someone else moving the page from draft to mainspace, either properly or by cut-and-paste. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:04, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
Yeah, I mean "remove them", since there have been an unusual amount of drafts moving into mainspace where you've edited it.
So, are you saying you're not moving drafts to begin with, and that the templates are, for all intents and purposes, being "added" by someone else moving the draft into mainspace? -- I dream of horses  If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message  (talk to me) (My edits) @ 06:24, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
  • @I dream of horses: I have been asked many times to history-merge e.g. page Draft:X to page X, and see above. If I find in Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests a request to move e.g. page Draft:Y to page Y, I leave it to someone else to do (e.g. if the draft has no AfC template call), or I advise the asking user to wait until the AfC procedure has run its course. But sometimes non-admin users move drafts to mainspace, sometimes by the move procedure, sometimes by cut-and-paste. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 07:16, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
I realize that and actually deal with that a good deal; however, if you history-merge, would it perhaps make it falsely appear that you've add the AfC templates back in?  I dream of horses  If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message  (talk to me) (My edits) @ 20:33, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
  • @I dream of horses: History-merging page X to page Y involves, basically: delete Y; move X to Y; undelete Y. That may may make some automatic detector system think that the AfC template call has disappeared and then returned. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:32, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
So, is your answer to "would it perhaps make it falsely appear that you've add the AfC templates back in?" yes?  I dream of horses  If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message  (talk to me) (My edits) @ 04:15, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
  • @I dream of horses: Perhaps it may; that sort of automatic detector sees false positives sometimes. (The same happens with the system that looks for inappropriate usernames.) If someone has moved Draft:X to X by cut-and-paste, after I "delete X; move Draft:X to X; undelete X", the move process adds a new latest edit of X which is an automatic copy of the last edit of Draft:X , and I must revert it off to make the true last edit of X show, hence the edit comment "rv histmerge junk". Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:22, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

WP:RMT user changing article text, then on RMT using the new text as reason

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requested_moves/Technical_requests&diff=812157816&oldid=812156354 92.226.212.49 (talk) 08:54, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Names of articles about municipalities of Venezuela

Thanks for your help!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3AWikiProject_Venezuela&type=revision&diff=812331346&oldid=812327236 85.180.161.75 (talk) 07:39, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Parallel copy of Liza Koshy

After moving the deleted parallel history of Liza Koshy out to Liza Koshy (version 2), you immediately re-deleted the history at the latter page. However, G4 is no longer appropriate since the article was kept. Can you please undelete the latter and redirect it to the former? Also, undelete the latter's talk page and remove the G8 speedy deletion tag afterward. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 01:54, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

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deletion of Masters of the 1 & 2

requested move for Television program

Can you help me sort whatever is wrong with this page move out. I performed a round the robin move and redirected this article without leaving a redirect to Television show. I don't still understand what is happening as the page still contain the full content as before. Cheers, Mahveotm (talk) 00:14, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Looks like you did OK. Another user recreated the redirect to avoid broken links. Dicklyon (talk) 03:23, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Babymissfortune. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Rahul Aggarwal, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

Babymissfortune 06:38, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

As far as I know, I accidentally misclicked "mark as unreviewed" button so I immediately clicked "mark as reviewed" (if you would notice). This may be the reason why I "messaged" you. No worries, there are no changes made. Thanks for noticing. Babymissfortune 10:48, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

IP user pages

Three times this year, you have created user pages for IP users with messages that were meant to be on the talk page. One of them, User:65.94.169.56, simply removed the misplaced message from the user page because a user talk page already existed. The other two, User:148.0.101.37 and User:92.226.212.49, have been moved to User talk:148.0.101.37 and User talk:92.226.212.49 respectively. Please be careful not to accidentally put messages on user pages again. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 23:48, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Moscow metro

Opening of the Moscow Central Circle made several article titles ambiguous, because there are now MCC stations operated by Moscow Metro having the same name. Could you move

to the disambiguated names? 85.181.106.144 (talk) 02:00, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, great help! Also thanks for replacing "namesake" with the actual name [4]. Two more articles:

And could you restore the - within Moscow Metro - consistent names, the line names are used in articles, in category names, as disambiguator etc.

It is not even clear if the long-hyphen is correct, since the Russian WP does not have it, might be proper name. If it is changed it should be done for all articles, categories, dab pages and templates, but there are probably 400 pages affected. Not counted articles containing links to these. 92.227.88.43 (talk) 15:47, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the moves of the articles having ambiguous titles. Re en/em dash and hyphen: It states that Guinea-Bissau is OK. Similiarly the line names are proper names, not generic as in "Japanese–American trade". It is "Калининско-Солнцевская", cf. http://tass.ru/moskva/3917686 and google Калининско-Солнцевская+site%3Aru. The user hopped in, made ca. 10 edits and left the articles in an inconsistent state. What would be needed are more likely 500 or 1000 edits. And this does not only affect Moscow Metro, but other Metro systems in Russia, since currently all consistently use uppercase for the type name as is done for streets, districts, oblasts, republics etc. The four pages should be moved back and the topic be discussed in WP:RUSSIA. 92.227.88.43 (talk) 18:03, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Anthony Appleyard, thanks a lot again! One error: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya_Line&diff=814453413&oldid=814396799 this station page should go to Aviamotornaya (Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line) and the line page (deleted https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya+Line) should go there. 77.180.3.248 (talk) 01:18, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Mis-moved

Your move here was wrong, looks like it mixed up different parts of the several requests. I don't mind my moves being reverted, but this didn't quite do that. Dicklyon (talk) 03:36, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

In particular, you moved a station article to a line article. The line article is now missing altogether, as far as I can tell. Dicklyon (talk) 04:38, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Once that gets sorted, out, see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RfC: Russian railway line article titles. It seems cleaner to resolve this with an RfC, since it'll affect more than just four articles. I've pointed the now-open, four-article RM to the RfC, and suggested the RM be deferred.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ<  04:42, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
What a mess. I have restored the article that was bizarrely deleted and have re-attached the talk pages to the relevant articles. The moves should also all be reverted to the status quo ante of two days ago; if I get a chance today I'll do that. Jenks24 (talk) 05:18, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
PS: In move summary where I said something like "mover knows full well that an full RM has been requested" I thought the IP-hopping anon had done the re-un-move or whatever; didn't notice that it as AA responding in good faith to the RM/TR request. This has also turned into a pointless ANI discussion, at WP:ANI#Moscow metro - WP:RMT logic.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ<  05:58, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
  • @SMcCandlish, Jenks24, and AlexTheWhovian: Sorry. That move abovementioned at "Your move ..." was as asked for by User:77.179.21.125 in this edit of page Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests. The faulty move of a station article to a line name (Aviamotornaya (Kalininsko–Solntsevskaya line) to Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line) was the 3rd of 5 moves asked for in this edit of Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests; it was asked for by User:213.39.186.16 . Thanks to User:Jenks24 and User:AlexTheWhovian for tidying this up. It seems that I better ignore any more move requests by IP users in this matter. (About "the IP-hopping anon", some computer link lines automatically choose another IP number each time they are activated.) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 07:11, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
    I know, but this user is using it to evade 3RR, etc. Covered at the ANI thread.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ<  07:22, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
    You or another admin may want to look into this; this editor is altering the RfC to suit their viewpoint and misrepresent the question and what various answers to it would mean, then burying it in repeat arguments to make it hard for people to follow. Has already hit 5RR at this point, as diffed at the ANI thread, but so far no one has taken any action (presumably because it's dark:30 in the Western Hemisphere where the bulk of the active admins are).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ<  10:08, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
    User:SMcCandlish your "is altering the RfC to suit their viewpoint and misrepresent the question" is incorrect and a libel. 92.227.85.102 (talk) 07:01, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
    It's not possible to libel someone who's anonymous. If you actually believe otherwise, then you're making a an actionable legal claim (for the second time), for which you can likely be blocked. BU Rob13 says at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/77.179.37.199 that you were given a final warning against disruptive editing yesterday. After all this an dmore, it's rather miraculous you have not been indefinitely blocked already. Keep it up, and it will happen. I'm already preparing an ANI filing, and might make it an ArbCom one, since ANI has already failed to deal with the problem once.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ<  08:36, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
  • I am in England, and my local time currently is Greenwich Mean Time, which is Wikipedia clock time. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:24, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

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Moving Global Force Wrestling (2014–2017) to Global Force Wrestling

I noticed that you recently moved Global Force Wrestling (2014–2017) to Global Force Wrestling due to Special:PermanentLink/814108338. Can you please undo this move? It had now linked hundreds of pages to the wrong promotion? Thanks - GalatzTalk 15:06, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

I have started a discussion on the appropriate wikiproject to resolve what to do with the page, however an IP user (probably the one who asked for the original move) is attempting to unilaterally dictate what happens without participating in the discussion here Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Professional wrestling#GFW article. Can you restrict the redirect until the issue can be resolved through the proper channels? Thanks - GalatzTalk 18:18, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

User:Galatz - Global Force Wrestling referred to Global Force Wrestling (2014–2017) for 3 years, and only for four months it referred to Impact Wrestling. There are different IP users opposing your view. Discuss and fix the links. Blocking does not improve the WP. 77.179.154.221 (talk) 18:58, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
Please explain how having links point to the wrong federation helps WP. - GalatzTalk 19:02, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
User:Galatz you should answer that, since the IPs created a dab page, but you redirected the ambiguous title to one thing it could refer to. The only that worked towards " having links point to the wrong federation" were you. 77.180.3.248 (talk) 01:24, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
I was the one who asked for the original move through the requested moves article; however, I was NOT the user who proceeded to move the article before a discussion of the requested move began. THAT was User:Anthony Appleyard. So, to User:Galatz: do NOT assume things before you know all the facts. 2602:304:CEBF:8650:65C9:5705:DBCB:865D (talk) 15:41, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
Because you brought it to uncontested, and didn't start the discussions. - GalatzTalk 22:34, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
Well, I guess I didn't think that a request to move the article for the "old" GFW from a title with the years in it to one without the years in it would be contested. I mean, since the article for the "new" GFW got re-titled back to Impact Wrestling, I figured the article for the "old" one no longer needed the years in the title. And, I didn't know that, apparently, being the move requester, I had to start the discussion. 2602:304:CEBF:8650:E004:548B:7400:5233 (talk) 09:20, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Not a problem, you live you learn. There is always a lot to learn about WP as people are experts in different policies than others. As you can see on my current talk page I am engaging in a conversation about something I didn't realize and recently learned as well. Having 8+ years and 20k+ edits doesn't mean much, its all about working together to help the greater good. I suggest you join the conversation here Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Professional wrestling#GFW article, which currently has a very split decision on the topic. Thanks for your contributions. - GalatzTalk 14:24, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
  • @Galatz: There is a message here for you from 2602:304:CEBF:8650:E004:548B:7400:5233 . Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:26, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
    • Thanks, I am following your page while the conversation is ongoing - GalatzTalk 14:17, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Undelete Global Force Wrestling

Can you please undelete the deleted histories of Global Force Wrestling and Talk:Global Force Wrestling under their existing histories? The page was moved back as requested in the section above. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 23:55, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

histmerge help?

I am told that you specialize in histmerges. I am trying to merge Zawisza (Szare Szeregi) to Gray Ranks, it's been proposed for 2 weeks without comment, but I never have figured how to do a history merge properly, usually end up doing cut-and-paste merges, which I know are frowned upon. WP:MERGETEXT has also been suggested. I will flub it up. Can you help?--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 09:09, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

HOw To Start Create 100% Verify Articles in WikiPedia

Hi Anthony Appleyard, This is Mukesh Pathak User: Mukeshpathak345 am learning all things but any one suggest me where we start.? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mukeshpathak345 (talk • contribs) 19:07, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Tony Luke

Hi, could you move the title Tony Luke Kocherry to Tony Luke per WP:COMMONNAME. He is a model and actor, IMDb, [8], [9], [10], [11]. There already exists a redirect directing to Tony Luke Jr.. Let There Be Sunshine (talk) 15:30, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Vehement objection to moving Security and Maintenance to Windows Defender Security Center

Hello, Mr. Appleyard

I am here to vehemently contest your moving of the Security and Maintenance article to the Windows Defender Security Center title. The reason you have give is wildly false: Since Windows 10 Creators Update the feature is renamed to Windows Defender Security Center. No such thing! These two are the names of distinct apps that co-exist in all versions of all editions of Windows 10.

Here are screenshots of each:

I must confess I am a little frightened too. We are lucky vandals haven't yet thought of vandalism in the form of requested technical moves! But of course, I believe had you looked even briefly at the article text, you'd have known better.

Would mind assessing the evidence I provided and reversing your action? Thanks.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 19:24, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Your assistance please...

You recently speedy deleted an article on the 2011 book Freak Out! My Life with Frank Zappa.

The book received many positive reviews, and, in 2014, was adapted into a BBC Radio drama, so I thought it was a notable topic, and drafted a brand new version.

I'd like to review the deleted revisions, see if there is anything of value there. Could you please merge the earlier history? Geo Swan (talk) 03:15, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Cat issue

Category:Psychological syndromes which you deleted is currently subject of an open discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 December 5; its emptying was controversial; still is. Dicklyon (talk) 06:34, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Skokka Deleted

  • @Anthony Appleyard: Good morning, I would like to get a further explanation on why the article of the website Skokka has been deleted. I contested the speedy deletion but I didn't get to discuss it so I would like, if possible, to know why has it been done since I think it was really informative and with potential for future development. Also, if you could retrieve me the code of the article so I can work in fixing it please send it my way. Kind Regards, AnitaDinamita (talk) 10:08, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
  • @AnitaDinamita: Page Skokka was deleted at 22:19, 11 December 2017 by User:Anthony Appleyard, and at 16:00, 27 November 2017 by User:Vanamonde93, both times for "G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion". Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:14, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
  • @Anthony Appleyard: I understand at the time User:Vanamonde93 deleted the article the content really looked like I was promoting Skokka, but after talking to him and rewriting the text the only thing he said my article was lacking was a little verifiability. I wrote it to be impartial, informative, and though I understand I may not be the best writer/editor I was working on it. Recently took down some info I had no way of confirming, if that information is of any use. I'm sorry if I sound irritated at you, because in no way I intend to sound like that, but I thought it was already published because I did a good job and finding it got deleted again is frustrating at the very least. So, if you could either check my article, or tell me where should I head for help please do because I think it was not promoting that website at all. Kind Regards, AnitaDinamita (talk) 14:51, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

@AnitaDinamita and Vanamonde93: I have undeleted Skokka and AfD'ed it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Skokka. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:29, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

  • Anthony, I've absolutely no problem with your decision to undelete and AfD. But, just for the record, I do not see the issues of verifiability and promotional content to be completely distinct. Listing the countries in which the website runs, without a source, is evidence of promotion in my view. Vanamonde (talk) 14:19, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Cut and paste move

Hi Anthony, sorry I drop this one on your plate as you already have familiarity with editor @Frank R 1981: at the contested uncontroversial move at Talk:Isla_Blanca_(Santa) which you dealt with. There is now a related cut and paste move at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ballestas_Islands&action=history, there may also be other controversial edit/move push through, but just mentioning one as quite major. Have attempted to communicate with user on both his Talk page and article Talk page. Not getting any response other than repeat moves. Cheers. If you aren't available will pop through to Edit war noticeboard. In ictu oculi (talk) 21:24, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Deleted edits for Glen Helen Amphitheater

In July 2017, you have simply moved San Manuel Amphitheater to Glen Helen Amphitheater without restoring deleted edits. Are they really WP:Parallel histories? If not, then please restore them. If they are, then please move the deleted edits to something like "Glen Helen Amphitheater (version 2)" and then redirect that page to the appropriate article. The deleted edits for the talk page should likewise be moved to "Talk:Glen Helen Amphitheater (version 2)". GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 01:22, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Please move the deleted history of Talk:Glen Helen Amphitheater to Talk:Glen Helen Amphitheater (version 2). You mistakenly moved the non-deleted history when you meant to move the deleted one. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 20:20, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Felony disenfranchisement in Virginia

Hello Anthony -- I notice I was mentioed at [[12]]. What's wrong with my user and talk pages? Rhadow (talk) 18:00, 15 December 2017 (UTC) Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved.

Camino del Cid move question

Hello Anthony, and thanks for your help. Sorry to bug you with this question, but could I have made that move myself by some other means and not have to pester you admins? The target page had two or three lines in its history, which I gather from Wikipedia:Moving_a_page#Moving_over_a_redirect may be what kept me from simply moving it. But I'm wondering whether it was some blunder in my approach or a rights limitation that prevented me. Eric talk 18:08, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

  • @Eric: For a non-admin to be able to move page X to name Y, if page Y already exists, Y must have only one edit, and that edit must be a redirect to X. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:32, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
Ok, that explains it, thanks! Eric talk 22:31, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

Donald Richards

Thanks for sorting out that mess. PamD 23:02, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Deleted page

Anthony, you recently deleted a page I just created but I wanted to contest it. I wanted to expand on it and add in more stuff but I didn't even get a chance to do it because in less than 24 hours it was gone. Can we have this page at least get a chance to see if it's relevant to exist before deleting it? Dapiks (talk) 08:38, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of Omega Tau Podcast

I began the translation of the German page Tau into English. A few hours after creating the page, during the night and without any possibility of discussion for me, Whispering let it delete, without any respect for my work (as he/she apparently frequently does with others). Please, restore my draft.

Motivation: Omega Tau is a science and engineering podcast which has the same right to be on Wikipedia as a book. Since it contains interviews to experts in the fields, it can be used as a source for scientific and technical information exactly as a book. -Eio (talk) 22:01, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Plute listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Plute. Since you had some involvement with the Plute redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 01:24, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Team Kuukulgur deletion

I just noticed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Kuukulgur was deleted. As less experienced wikipedia editor I can be wrong in my assumptions, so I contest this decision here and hope for best. I think context is important in two reasons. First: Team and robots won Technology Achievement Award from NASA. https://www.facebook.com/TeamKuukulgur/photos/a.573248329364876.1073741833.571403496216026/573249002698142/?type=3&theater Second, this team formed base for notable startup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Technologies These robots/team were also noted in credible sources like https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-robots/fetch-robot-retrievers-compete-in-1-5-million-nasa-contest-idUSBRE95419T20130605 https://images.nasa.gov/details-201406140012HQ.html https://images.nasa.gov/details-201406110011HQ.html Tõnu Samuel (talk) 05:27, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

I hope I did not what is needed Tõnu Samuel (talk) 06:44, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

My Friends From Afar redirect

You have merged part of the history of My Friends From Afar to Draft:My Friends From Afar. But you forgot to restore the remaining revisions for the former. Can you do that please? The former was a valid redirect. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 22:33, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Wikipage

Histmerge request

Hi. Can you help me histmerge Draft:Age Before Beauty (TV series) to Age Before Beauty (TV series)? Bennv3771 (talk) 13:05, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! Bennv3771 (talk) 14:11, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
And thanks for the additional histmerges you've now done! Bennv3771 (talk) 15:47, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
Sorry to trouble you again, but can I check if histmerges of Marco Polo Reyes with Draft:Marco Polo Reyes and Danielle Taylor (fighter) with Draft:Danielle Taylor (fighter) are possible? Or are the few overlapping edits enough for parallel histories to apply? Bennv3771 (talk) 19:16, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Gareth talk pages histmerge request

Got it. I wasn't sure how to clean this up, thanks for taking care of it. – Train2104 (t • c) 12:44, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Reason for deletion of Calma Carmona?

There are branches to this page but it has disappeared. Considerable work was carried out to improve its impartiality and to repair broken and substandard links. Chrisdevelop (talk)

Thanks!

Chrisdevelop (talk)

The article has now been edited to address the flagged issues (removal of extraneous weblinks, tightening up language and relocation of useful links to citations). Edits carried out are posted on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Calma_Carmona#Calma_Carmona and in the page log. Please provide feedback on whether the issues have been adequately addressed. The 'autobiography' and 'peacock' notifications and the deletion notice have been left in place pending feedback.

Chrisdevelop (talk)

Viewpoint (magazine) AfD

Hi! I was thinking about taking Viewpoint (magazine) (deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Viewpoint (magazine) a few days ago) to Deletion review; I understand, however, that I'm obliged to discuss the matter with you, as the closer, before doing so. My sense is that two of the five points at WP:DRVPURPOSE apply: #1, insofar as six people participated in the deletion discussion and only !two voted to delete, and their arguments were not significantly stronger or more grounded in policies or guidelines than those who did not !vote to delete; and #5, insofar as the discussion was eligible for a speedy keep decision as the nominator failed to advance an argument for deletion (though this ambiguous – the Speedy keep guideline allows for procedural nominations, but in this case the only prior argument for deletion was an inapplicable A7 nomination). My sense is that the discussion ought to have been relisted again or closed as no consensus. Could you perhaps take a moment to revisit the discussion and your closure and respond to these concerns? Wishing you happy holidays and a happy new year. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 23:34, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Jannat Zubair Rahmani

Hi AA, I'm curious about Jannat Zubair Rahmani, specifically why it was deleted today. From what I can tell, prior to your deletion, it had been speedied in 2011, but then was rebuilt between 2013 and 2017 with hundreds of edits in between.

Now I know that another parallel article Bibhu Aggarawal Jannat (which I guess is the same person) was created by Kanakaggarawal29, so I can understand what that one and newer ones are being deleted, but the older one I'm a bit confused by. Might this have been a mistake? It seems like it was a legit article. I don't know for sure what Kanak's goal is, but I think he might be erroneously creating multiple articles because he doesn't know that we can redirect them or something. Obviously he's effing up left and right and I think it's very likely I'm going to wind up indeffing him if he doesn't respond to my next query. (I also notice Actorsworld29 as an alt account.) Thanks man, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 02:11, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi AA, thanks for the reply. The concern I have is this: I believe the article was nominated and deleted in error. Unless I'm misinterpreting the deleted edit log, the article existed uncontested from 2013-2015. The article just prior to the deletion was created in 2013 by an editor called Chander, and thus was not created to circumvent the salt at Bibhu Aggarawal Jannat because it existed long before. All of the Bibhu Aggarawal Jannat stuff started happening in September 2017 when this Kanakaggarwawal29 kid (probably the subject's little brother) started screwing around with creating unnecessary duplicate articles. I think this was a hasty speedy-deletion nomination on Reddogsix's part is what I'm getting at. What do ya think? Cyphoidbomb (talk) 07:06, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
  • @Cyphoidbomb: I have undeleted the old deleted edits at Jannat Zubair Rahmani. (Sorry, I do not know much in detail about Indian and Pakistani movies and their actors.) The two older speedy-delete requests were made at 19:08, 8 February 2011‎ by User:Kamkek and at 11:51, 20 July 2010‎ by User:Tehw1k1 . Perhaps wait until the current editing has settled down and then see what the article is like. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:25, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the undelete, AA. I'll keep an eye on the article. The issue here is overzealous editing mixed with lack of competence, and I'm also guessing a helping hand of poor English. However this kid has created such a muck, I'm probably going to have to get a CU performed to figure out all the accounts he's got open, on top of all this. So the work continues! Regards and Happy New Year, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:11, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

History merge

Can you history merge Luis Perez (American football) and Draft:Luis Perez (American football). Thanks. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 09:35, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

My Friends from Afar

Hi. You just histmerged Draft:My Friends From Afar to My Friends from Afar, which is good. Only problem is that when the Draft was deleted it had a {{Copyvio-revdel}} tag on it: [13] which never got actioned because the draft page was deleted instead. Those copyvio revisions are now back in the history. I don't really want to re-tag it since that might confuse the current editors (big red copyvio tag appearing out of nowhere...) so I wondered if you could take care of that RD1? -- Begoon 11:25, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

  • @Begoon: In the history of My Friends from Afar, the edits from the second edit at 05:25, 29 December 2017 to the edit at 04:02, 30 December 2017‎, were at 20:29, 30 December 2017 set (not by me) as described at Wikipedia:Revision deletion so that ordinary users cannot read them (but administrators can still read them). That process is independent of whether an edit is marked as being deleted or undeleted in the ordinary way. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:37, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
That's a different, subsequent copyvio event, after re-creation (similar content). Look at the revision numbers on the {{Copyvio-revdel}} template displayed at [14], which I linked above - that tag was never actioned because at that point the draft was deleted (via MfD) - those are the problematic ones, from earlier, before the Draft was deleted, and they are still visible to me.
If you prefer, or if it's easier, I can just re-tag it and let the admins who usually deal with those RD1s handle it, keeping the processes separate. Sorry if it's become confusing. -- Begoon 13:19, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
Looks perfect to me. Thank you very much for doing that - it was very helpful - now there's no need for me to frighten the current editors with a scary tag. Happy New Year. -- Begoon 15:38, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Expectations (Bebe Rexha album)

If you decide to delete Expectations (Bebe Rexha album), please send it through the appropriate RFD channel before doing so. Thanks! --Jax 0677 (talk) 21:44, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

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